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Description:
ECMWF's meteorological plotting software

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Jan 20, 2026

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Other

Tags: meteorology visualization weather climate ecmwf plotting

Install: brew install magics

About:
Magics is a meteorological plotting software library from ECMWF used to visualize weather and climate data. It provides a comprehensive set of tools for creating maps, graphs, and other visualizations directly from GRIB, NetCDF, and other geospatial data formats. Its main value is enabling meteorologists and researchers to generate publication-quality meteorological plots programmatically.

Key Features:

Visualizes GRIB and NetCDF meteorological data
Generates maps, graphs, contours, and wind fields
Supports multiple output formats (PNG, PDF, SVG, PostScript)
Offers interfaces for Fortran, C, Python, and command-line use
Provides extensive customization for cartography and styling

Use Cases:

Creating operational weather forecast charts
Producing visualizations for climate research publications
Building custom meteorological data analysis pipelines

Alternatives:

Metview – ECMWF's interactive meteorological workstation and batch system, which uses Magics as its plotting engine but offers a higher-level GUI and macro language.
Cartopy – Python library for geospatial data visualization, more general-purpose but less specialized for meteorological data formats like GRIB.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Jan 20, 2026 2:40pm		0	META	05e55694